A month into her premiership, Liz Truss's Africa policy has yet to be sketched out, but London is nevertheless planning a UK-Africa investment summit for next April.
A report by the DRC's civil aviation authority has lifted the veil on the main obstacles to the country's airports obtaining international certification.
African Union President Macky Sall, whom the FACT invited to take on a mediator role with N'Djamena in August, is getting back to business on the Chad file. In early October, Sall hosted Djibrill Yipènè Bassolé, Burkina Faso's former foreign minister, who has been very actively seeking an accord between N'Djamena and the rebel groups.
Following the opening of a military production facility in Uganda over the summer, the Emirati firm Streit Group is now setting out to conquer West Africa. It is eyeing a partnership with Dicon, the Nigerian public defence conglomerate, as well as new opportunities in Guinea.
Several companies are keen to take on Benin's only oil field, which has been dormant since 1998. In the running are two juniors, Baobab Energy Africa, founded by former Tullow energy execs, and Zenith Energy.
From his Baidoa base, Abdiaziz Laftagareen is busy networking and making his influence felt. He was recently in Nairobi for talks with the new administration of William Ruto, without having cleared this first with the federal president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud.
At the end of September, Kenya's Kisumu County selected the Kenyan subsidiary of Chinese engineering firm Zhonghao Overseas Construction Engineering for various water service upgrades.
Zimbabwe's Zimasco is to receive compensation from its former Chinese mining contractor, ChinaZim, for the unauthorised exploitation of its ferrochrome deposits. But the sum the court awarded - $780,000 - is lower than the value Zimasco put on the stolen ore.
Airport management firm Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) has successfully convinced South African defence group Denel to extend its management contract for the VIP terminal at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport.
Two candidates have applied to take over from Swedish researcher Gustav Lindstrom as head of the Paris-based European Union Institute for Security Studies.
In New York, where he was attending the UN General Assembly, Tunisia's foreign affairs minister Othman Jerandi was accompanied by diplomat Yassine Salah.
